The purpose of this program is to identify, educate, engage, and collaborate with rural stakeholders on national rural health and policy issues and promising practices in an effort to improve the health of people living in rural communities nationwide. This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the National Rural
Health Policy, Community, and Collaboration Program. The purpose of this program is
to identify, engage, educate, and collaborate with rural stakeholders on national rural
health policy issues and promising practices to improve health care in rural areas
nationwide.
Program objectives include:
1) Identifying and educating rural stakeholders about national policy issues
and promising practices for rural health.
2) Maintaining projects that will help support engagement of rural communities in
a broad range of activities.
3) Facilitating collaborations at the local, regional, state, and national levels to
improve the exchange of information and promising practices that support
rural health.
4) Identifying and providing information to rural stakeholders about existing
federal funding opportunities or other programs relating to health care in
rural areas.
A successful program will continue to build upon the federally funded resources that
currently exist, leverage the broad network of rural health organizations and individual
subject matter experts, and provide a mechanism to engage with public rural health
stakeholders beyond Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded
award recipients and current partners to improve health care in rural areas.